Commonwealth of Massachusetts. OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Attorney-General. HOSEA M. KNOWLTON of New Bedford. Assistants. FREDERICK E. HURD of Boston. SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS. Heads of Departments. Metropolitan Park Commission. JAMES MOTT HALLOWELL of Medford. SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS. - Metropolitan Water Board. Metropolitan Sewerage Commission. FRANKLIN T. HAMMOND of Cambridge. SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS. — Metropolitan Park Commission. Massachusetts Highway Commission. State Board of Charity. State Board of Insanity. Public Charitable Trusts. ARTHUR W. DEGOOSH of Cambridge. SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS - Collateral Inheritance Tax. Receiverships. Commissions and State Boards other than those enumerated above. Extradition and Interstate Rendition. Corporations. Collections. Clerk. LOUIS H. FREESE of Stoneham. *Of this amount, $824.48 has been collected as costs of suits and paid to the Treasurer of the Commonwealth. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. To the General Court. OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, In compliance with Public Statutes, chapter 17, section 9, I submit my report for the year ending this day. The cases requiring the attention of the office during the year to the number of 1,378 are tabulated below: Bastardy complaints, Collateral inheritance tax cases, Corporate collections made without suit, Corporation returns enforced without suit, Dissolutions of corporations, voluntary petitions for, Extradition and interstate rendition, Grade crossings, petitions for abolition of, Informations at the relation of the Commissioner of Corporations, Informations, applications for, considered and not granted, Indictments for murder, Land-damage cases arising through the alteration of grade cross- Land-damage cases arising from the taking of land by Massachusetts Highway Commission, . Land-damage cases arising from the taking of land by the Metropolitan Park Commission, Land-damage cases arising from the taking of land by the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission, 6 184 117 187 56 47 141 25 7 5 Land-damage cases arising from the taking of land by the Metropolitan Water Board, Miscellaneous cases arising from the work of the above-named commissions, Miscellaneous cases, Public charitable trusts, Settlement cases for support of insane paupers, CAPITAL CASES. Indictments for murder, pending at the date of the last annual report, have been disposed of as follows: JOHN H. CHANCE, alias JOHN H. SCHULTZE, and ARTHUR HAGAN, of Boston, indicted in Suffolk County, June, 1898, for the murder of Charles L. Russell, at Boston, April 4, 1898. On Aug. 19, 1898, Chance was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. Hiram P. Harriman and G. Philip Wardner were assigned by the court as his counsel. Hagan was arraigned Oct. 14, 1898, and pleaded not guilty, and George R. Swasey and Florence F. Sullivan were assigned by the court as his counsel. On Feb. 6, 1899, both prisoners were tried together by a jury before Bishop and Stevens, JJ., a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree was rendered against Chance, and Hagan was acquitted. Exceptions were filed by counsel for Chance, and were argued before the Supreme Judicial Court at Boston, June 27, 1899. The exceptions were overruled Sept. 7, 1899. On Sept. 11, 1899, Chance was sentenced to State Prison for life. The trial of the case was conducted by the AttorneyGeneral, ably assisted by Michael J. Sughrue, assistant district attorney. NATLINO GULIANO, alias NATALE YULIANO, of Springfield, indicted in Hampden County, September, 1898, for the murder of Pietro Fazio, at Springfield, June 12, 1898. He was arraigned Nov. 30, 1898, and pleaded not guilty. S. S. Taft, Esq., and James E. Dunleavy, Esq., were assigned as his counsel. May 18, 1899, he retracted his plea of not guilty, and pleaded guilty of murder in the second. degree. The plea was accepted by the Commonwealth, and he was thereupon sentenced to State Prison for life. The case was in charge of Charles L. Gardner, district attorney. Indictments for murder, found since the date of the last annual report, have been disposed of as follows: FELIX P. CANFIELD of Boston, indicted in Suffo k County, May, 1899, for the murder of Grace D. Canfield, at Boston, |